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JULIÃO SARMENTO A Body to Touch.
Mixed-media on canvas, 2006. 1905x1905 mm; 75x75 inches. Signed, titled, dated "Capa Rota 2006" and annotated with the artist's inventory number "# 1828" in oil, verso.
Ex-collection Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, with the label on the stretcher verso; private collection, New York.
Sarmento (born 1948) was born in Lisbon, Portugal and studied architecture and painting in the mid-1960s at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon, leaving before attaining his degree in frustration with the school's conservative approach. He lived and worked around the world, including the United States and Morocco, before returning to Portugal to work as an artist. He has employed sculpture, film, installation and painting, with the body central to his work. Often rendered in androgynous and simplified forms, the bodies he depicts reflect on desire and intimacy as well as the possessive aspect of the male gaze.
